Family Of Gardeners - Henry Etienne Dumaige (1830-1888)

Bronze with a dark brown patina old cast France circa 1880 height 55,5 cm our web catalog link  https://galerietourbillon.com/dumaige-henry-etienne-famille-de-jardiniers/ Galerie Tourbillon : Free valuation - Buy and Sell at best prices Biography : Henry Etienne Dumaige (1830-1888) was a French sculptor. He was the student of Jean Feuchère and Christophe Dumont. He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists from 1863 to 1886. He exhibited including The Golden Age, a plaster group at the Salon of 1863, then 1864; Hero to the Salon of 1866 and Fatherland, bronze group at the Salon of 1886. Dumaige was rewarded with a second medal in 1880. For the foundry Houdebine, participating in Exposition Universelle of 1878 in Paris, he composed two caryatides-women-torchères, but he also worked for other founders. Among other things, he made statues for the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, then the one representing Rabelais, a marble for the City of Tours.